The exhibition, organized by the museum’s chief librarian Francis Luca, features children's propaganda books, magazines, board games, puppets and puzzles created as a means to enlist even the youngest members of a nation in the broader cause of the war effort.

The works on view represent the major conflicts of the 20th century: the South African (or “Boer”) War (1899-1902), World War I (1914-1918), the Italo-Ethiopian War (1935-1936), the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and World War II (1939-1945).